Jay Khodiar Metal Works

You can find Jay Khodiar Metal Works on the 1st floor of Building No 11, in the 2nd Kalbadevi area. We are quite close to Bhuleshwar Road, which is always a maze of carts and people. The workshop is where we spend all our hours. It’s a place filled with the sound of metal hitting metal and the spark of welding machines. We don't have a fancy entrance or a receptionist. You just walk up the stairs and you’ll see us working. The air is always a bit heavy with the smell of grease and burnt iron. We make all sorts of metal parts and fix things that people bring in. It gets very warm up here on the first floor, especially in the middle of the day, so we keep the windows open even if it lets in the street noise. My clothes usually have a few small holes from sparks, but that’s just part of the job. We aren't trying to be a big factory; we just handle the jobs that come our way with the tools we have. Sometimes someone comes in with a broken piece of machinery and asks if we can replicate it. We sit down, take some measurements, and get to work. It takes time and patience to get it right. When the work is done, we pack it up and move on to the next task. It is just steady, manual work.